A not-so-idle remark from an inquisitive friend (thanks, Bert) led me on an interesting chase through Google.

Bert asked about the words that were visible on the pink cape of my previous post, the subject of which I had attributed to Clet. How wrong I was!

Here is the image from that post.

After enlarging the image, I could discern that the words were yipiyipiyeah. A search for this revealed that Clet probably had nothing to do with this alteration of a street sign. It’s another artist (or a group thereof) from Madrid!

To quote their website (translation from Spanish by Signor Google) “The collective Yipi Yipi Yeah has painted the traffic signals of the capital in a vindictive and ironic gesture.” Vindictive makes it sound rather edgy, doesn’t it?

There are numerous examples of their work on this site: yipi

Do yourself a favour, and have a look at the site, if you’re at all interested in being vindictive or ironic. There seem to be hundreds of Yipi Yipi Yeah’s works, so if you visit Madrid, you should be able to spot at least a few of them. I wonder what the authorities in Madrid think of all of this?

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I’ve been somewhere doing something but for the life of me
I can’t figure out who or what
Just dropped bye to say hello
Would love to stay but I got
Eggs in the car and I don’t
Want them to spoil
As Sheldon Usually

Bert ‘s remark about a detail in your photo made you discover something important: a kind of “artistic” revolt against the agreed order, in this case in Madrid but it could have been elsewhere.
Love ❤
Michel

Crikey! That’s what I like, a stalker with a good memory. I remember, a few years back, asking them not to put an olive in my spritz, but I used the Italian word for olive tree. Then, I wondered why they laughed at me! 🙂

Bert
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I was led to this, from Robert Frost, Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA (Wow!)
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The oldest reference to it, I know, is in the 1936 movie Rhythm on the Range starring Bing Crosby. Bing sings a song called “I’m an old cowhand (from the Rio Grande)”, written by Johnny Mercer.
The song is about a cowboy that isn’t really a cowboy. Very appropriate for that scene in Die Hard because Hans had just called the New York cop a cowboy.
Yippie-i-o ki yay is used in the song, about 24 seconds in, you can hear it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=IFS6UXi4DB4

I love this kind of street art. Heh, heh. The song people are thinking of is Pecos Bill’s song Yippee aye ay, aye ay, yippee aye ohhh, I’m the toughest critter west of the Alamo!!! here’s a link with some yodeling from Roy Rogers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHC8o9GNI8k Enjoy!